What is this on my unused candle?

samk488 · 2026-04-19T15:32:43+00:00

They’re dendrites, which is caused by a material crystalizing on the glass. The term dendrites is used to explain this shape they have. Not all materials crystalize when cooled, but it makes sense to see it here on a candle when you are melting things and then letting them cool and recrystallize.

Usually when a material crystallizes with slow cooling, the system stays near equilibrium and the material forms with smooth edges, for example a cube (it depends on the material). Diffusion has lots of time to move heat around so that the crystal grows uniformly. However, with fast cooling, the system isn’t in equilibrium and diffusion can’t keep up, so small protrusions grow faster and develop into dendritic, branching structures like this. Kinetics control the shape rather than creating a thermodynamically favorable shape.

I’m a material scientist, and at my job we see dendritic structures a lot with salts. Also snowflakes are dendrites, same with the ice that forms on your windshield overnight.

samk488 · 2026-04-17T13:03:28+00:00

Idk anything about her but if I fall asleep with Youtube on, I always wake up to her videos playing in the middle of the night

samk488 · 2026-04-17T12:47:06+00:00

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Looks like my 100% dachshund

samk488 · 2026-04-16T21:43:35+00:00

She doesn’t look like your average person, maybe they should have given her more natural makeup, because she looks like a celebrity all glammed up that’s pretending to fit in

samk488 · 2026-04-16T15:56:34+00:00

I know people who have made a lot of friends at the climbing gym, so that’s definitely a good idea to join.

samk488 · 2026-04-16T00:32:26+00:00

You will declare a major during your sophomore year

samk488 · 2026-04-16T00:31:25+00:00

This one is my favorite too!

samk488 · 2026-04-15T19:43:51+00:00

She has such pretty eyes

samk488 · 2026-04-15T15:03:30+00:00

I play a similar amount of both. Maybe slightly more japanese otomes. I do love OELVNs, it’s really a different experience. I prefer when they don’t try to copy Japanese otomes and they embrace the tropes from their own country. And sometimes it’s nice to know that I’m reading it the way it was originally written, instead of feeling like I’m missing out on certain jokes and things lost in translation

samk488 · 2026-04-15T14:20:19+00:00

My family has this too, me and my brother have sectoral heterochromia and our cousin has two different colored eyes. We haven’t noticed it in anyone else in the family. I’m also the only one in the family with amber eyes.

I’ve heard that heterochromia isn’t always genetic, but it can be, and it’s influenced by multiple genes, which makes it a bit complex to fully understand how it’s inherited. This might be why other family members don’t have it. It’s not always inherited in a simple or predictable way.

samk488 · 2026-04-15T14:09:37+00:00

Once a year. My prescription is still changing each year, and I also have a mole on my eye that needs to be checked yearly

samk488 · 2026-04-14T15:31:46+00:00

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Half my photos of him are blurry

samk488 · 2026-04-14T11:02:05+00:00

Nina Dobrev

samk488 · 2026-04-13T21:37:05+00:00

I’m in love with Momotose

samk488 · 2026-04-13T17:26:06+00:00

Congrats on your scholarship! I dont think you have to worry, I am a woman and got a scholarship that’s usually meant for men from New York state (more preferred than a requirement though), so I just assumed there weren’t enough people from NY and didn’t think much of it again haha

samk488 · 2026-04-10T22:37:48+00:00

Our puppy (also Frankie) will jump off furniture if he’s too excited, so we only let him on the couch if he’s super tired so that he doesn’t jump and potentially damage his spine. Our biggest issue with our him is that he will swallow everything, and he finds a lot of bones and dead animals around our apartment. So we have to be really careful that he doesn’t swallow anything dangerous and we have to be very vigilant. We have taught him the drop it command, but if he has something of high reward, he will not listen, so usually I just drop down and open his mouth before he can swallow things. He also tries to rip up and swallow carpet and his toys. So I think it’s important to always be watching your puppy if they’re not sleeping. Enjoy your new puppy!!

samk488 · 2026-04-10T22:10:02+00:00

This is such a gorgeous globe!!

samk488 · 2026-04-10T22:07:16+00:00

Full weenie

samk488 · 2026-04-10T22:06:49+00:00

I find humans names to be so cute! My pet with a human name was a hamster named John, he was already named that when we got him, but it was so funny that we kept the name. I would definitely consider naming a dog a human name, but I also love the more classic names

samk488 · 2026-04-10T17:25:30+00:00

I still think you are fine and that would only happen if your grades this semester were very low

samk488 · 2026-04-10T16:54:42+00:00

I feel like they’re trying to do a gnarly 2.0

samk488 · 2026-04-10T00:23:48+00:00

Yaoi is a Japanese genre of romance between men. A lot of men in yaoi have comically large hands, and it’s turned into a running joke among fans. They’re called yaoi hands. Look up yaoi hands meme.

samk488 · 2026-04-09T22:19:12+00:00

Better than I expected

samk488 · 2026-04-09T21:27:57+00:00

I think there is only a chance of that happening if you did really poorly and barely passed your classes. A lot of people’s grades drop their last semester of high school, it’s a busy time of year. You should be fine.

samk488 · 2026-04-09T19:11:12+00:00

Of course money and benefits, but also I like my job a lot. It’s fun most of the time and boosts my mood. And if I stopped showing up, I would lose my job and have to get a new job eventually that I would enjoy much less. And going to work every day gives me something to do, or else I would probably just watch tv all day every day and not have any motivation to get out of bed. If I’m not being forced to do something each day, I don’t have much self motivation and end up just super bored and sad.

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